---
id: CVE-2026-92409
title: >-
  The Donation Thermometer WordPress plugin before 2.3.0 does not escape a
  colour value taken from a shortcode attribute before using it in an attribute
  of the generated legend markup, allowing users with the Contributor role and
  above to …
summary: >-
  The Donation Thermometer WordPress plugin before 2.3.0 does not escape a
  colour value taken from a shortcode attribute before using it in an attribute
  of the generated legend markup, allowing users with the Contributor role and
  above to …
severity: medium
cvss: 6.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
product: Donation Thermometer
affected:
  - donation_thermometer >= 2.2.9 < 2.3.0
published: '2026-10-14'
updated: '2026-10-15'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-15T11:18:03.753'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92409'
references:
  - url: 'https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c74b76e-fd6f-4dbc-aba1-f7de2444ee95/'
    label: contact@wpscan.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00311
epssPercentile: 0.23812
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-10-15T10:32:48.688725Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-10-14T07:21:04.846Z'
---

## Overview

The Donation Thermometer WordPress plugin before 2.3.0 does not escape a colour value taken from a shortcode attribute before using it in an attribute of the generated legend markup, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary event handlers that execute when the page is viewed.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.